starting in late March 2026, there will be a new limit of 5 high-traffic communities per moderator. Only communities with greater than 100k weekly visitors count toward this limit, and there are no limits on communities under that amount.

For those who are impacted (less than 0.1% of active mods), we’re rolling out in several phases over 6 months to ensure mods have sufficient time to prepare. We notified all impacted moderators last month, and you can also check your status anytime here.

More details in the thread.

We could also consider policies around this on an instance level. I don’t think it’s that big of a problem yet, and “X communities with >Y users” might not be the best metric for us, but it’s worth discussing

  • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    13 hours ago

    So why now? There is literally no reason for this mutually beneficial arrangement to end now after all these years…unless Reddit admin has something planned that they know will piss off even the powermods, and are trying to ensure that no single person or small group of people has the ability to lead an effective sitewide rebellion.

    I am quite convinced that in the near-future reddit will make large® subreddits at least governed by AI tools, removing mods entirely.

      • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        13 hours ago

        And wider reddit mods because part of the appeal of this to many mods is to grow and organise a community. Power-tripping aside - if they can’t do that anymore (ie can’t curate content via banning people) then it negates the value of the platform to them.